Example sentences of "[noun sg] [am/are] [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system . |
| 2 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 3 | Object class descriptions and rules for monitoring are sent to the agents and are stored so that the agents do n't need to communicate with the console except to report alerts and graphing data , cutting down on network traffic , the company says . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it is possible to apportion head office overheads to a particular contract by comparing total company turnover and contract turnover and their proportion to total head office overheads in the same ratio , thus contract proportion of = contract turnover head office head office overheads = company turnover overheads Further methods of calculating head office overheads attributable to a particular contract are described in the publications listed in the bibliography . |
| 5 | One of the main departures from this sense of completeness is the detachment of the maxilla from the rest of the skull , and as an indicator of this first stage of breakage , the numbers of isolated maxillae present in the bone assemblage are compared with the numbers of skulls . |
| 6 | In addition , attempts to interpret rural social change are hampered by the myths surrounding rural life , especially those that portray all rural communities as settings in which mutual aid and harmony of interests abound . |
| 7 | Miscommunication is widespread between peasants and outsiders , whether developers or government officials , and the research will focus on how processes of change are interpreted by the parties concerned . |
| 8 | The changing moods of the play are reflected in the songs of Schumann , whose love for Clara followed a remarkably similar course . |
| 9 | While there are a few vines on the flat ground just south of the village , the vast majority are found on the slopes of the Butte de Saran , the northern extremity of the Côte des Blancs , and on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon , edging the suburbs of Épernay . |
| 10 | All these qualities provided by the academic course are valued by the gate-keepers of the foreign language-teaching profession — PGCE tutors , advisers to L.E.A.s headteachers — but especially in recent times the degree of spoken language fluency is stressed . |
| 11 | If the results of assessment are used in the ways intended and if the evidence of research and HMI findings of good practice are heeded , these children should in fact benefit , because their problems with the English language will have been identified and appropriate action can be taken to help at an early stage . |
| 12 | Ministerial contacts of this kind are supplemented by the activities of the junior Ministers , the Parliamentary Private Secretaries , and the Government Whips . |
| 13 | The cellars of the present building are adapted from the cloisters of a medieval monastery . |
| 14 | The Pelican Guide proposes that accounts of the social context of literature are included in the volumes to suggest the factors which merely encouraged forms of literary production . |
| 15 | Other firms engaged in merchant banking are scattered among the categories of ‘ foreign ’ , ‘ other British ’ and ‘ consortium ’ banks . |
| 16 | Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one . |
| 17 | Its liberal hopes of progress are grounded in the beliefs that human beings individually have reconcilable goals like peace , health , and prosperity and that institutions are a human construct , not always deliberate and , once created , having effects of their own on people 's thoughts and actions . |
| 18 | The treatment intervals before radiotherapy are given for the patients who were followed up for three months or more while undergoing laser treatment . |
| 19 | The European champions ' chances of achieving such an extravagant result are dimmed by the absences of Miodrag Belodedic , Ilja Najdoski , Goran Vasijevic and Dejan Savicevic — all banned . |
| 20 | People who steal and murder are put in the prison-ships , and they stay there for years sometimes . |
| 21 | The instruments provided and their agreed use in the case study are summarised in the paragraphs that follow . |
| 22 | Exceptions to this general rule are identified in the tables . |
| 23 | Nowadays thousands of different types of thermometer in use in science and industry are based on the principles he laid down . |
| 24 | Relics of the lead-mining and smelting industry are scattered on the moors in the vicinity . |
| 25 | The ground rules of completion are designed for the interests of the public and not for the interests of the profession alone . |
| 26 | The different playing philosophies that account for the North-South divide are emphasised by the views of two of the most successful coaches or recent times — Australia 's Bob Dwyer and Ian McGeechan of Scotland and the British Lions . |
| 27 | In determining the issue costs of a capital instrument prudence should be exercised to ensure that only those costs which can be demonstrated to relate directly to the issue of the instrument are deducted from the proceeds . |
| 28 | Teachers ' expectations , stereotyping and labelling are seen as the mechanisms by means of which membership of an ethnic or gender group results in ethnic or sex disparities in achievements or in particular types of classroom behaviour . |
| 29 | By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland . |
| 30 | Within hours , the International Secretariat 's researcher responsible for work on Columbia was in contact with WARN coordinators in USA , Canada and UK , who immediately sent appeals to the Governor of Cauca urging that the indigenous leaders be released and that no further force be used against the demonstrators . |